Question

When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she fought to find a place to sleep on the street. But she beat these terrible setbacks（挫折） to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry （录入）into Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”.

Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up with two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough  food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just l5 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died. She decided to do something about it.

Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, and by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.

She admitted that she used envy （妒忌）to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time. ”

Liz wants moviegoers（常看电影的人） to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.

1.In which order did the following things happen to Liz?

a. Her mother died of AIDS.

b. She got admitted into Harvad.

c. She worked at a petrol station.

d. The movie about her life was put on.

e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.

A. c, a, e, b, d    B. a, b, c, e, d

C. c, d, b, a, e    D. b, e, a, d, c

2.What actually made her go towards her goal?

A. Envy and encouragement.

B. Willpower and determination.

C. Decisions and understanding

D. Love and respect for her parents.

3.What does Liz mean by saying “What drove me to live on...I had only experienced a small part of the society”?

A. She had little experience of social life.

B. She could hardly understand the society.

C. She would do something for her own life.

D. She needed to travel more around the world.

4.What does the passage mainly tell us?

A. Why Liz loved her parents so much.

B. How Liz made efforts to change her life.

C. What a hard time Liz had in her childhood.

D. How Liz managed to enter Harvard University.

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.B

【解析】本文主要讲述Liz Murray如何克服生活中的种种困难，最后取得成功的人生故事。

1.A

细节题。根据文章第一句When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station可知9岁时他就在加油站工作，第二段的“Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just l5 years old”妈妈去世。她无家可归，后来被哈佛大学录取，最后讲关于她的生活的一部电影上演。故选A项。

2.B

B 细节题。根据文章第二段首句“Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination”可知：意志力和决心是他取得成功的关键。故B正确。

3.C

推理判断题。第三段第二行中“ What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society, ” 根据句意可知：真正让他前进的是一种存在的方式，即为自己的生活而努力，去体验生活。故C正确。

考点：考察人物传记类短文阅读

4.B

主旨大意题。本文主要叙述的是Liz Murray如何克服生活中的种种困难，最后取得成功的人生故事，故B正确。

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